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The Path of Faith: A Biblical Theology of Covenant and Law (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology | ESBT) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The closely related biblical themes of covenant and law have often been debated. Yet they are among the most important topics in Scripture—theologically and practically. They address how God graciously relates to us and how we ought to live on a daily basis. In this ESBT volume, Brandon Crowe builds on previous books in the series as he considers covenant and law throughout both Old and New...

Yet the Sermon on the Mount is not so different from other parts of Scripture addressing the law of God. In the Sermon on the Mount we see what God truly requires of his people: true obedience to the law of God. Obedience brings blessing, whereas rejection of God’s law brings curse. In the new covenant it remains true that the life of blessing is a life of conformity to the law of God. . We start with the Beatitudes (Mt 5:3–12). The first one reads: “Blessed are the poor
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